Design

Hello everyone, greetings from Shanghai, the sunny spring days are here in Shanghai since we arrived last Saturday. I never traveled here with John in March/April before. When we were students back then, we only came here during summer holiday. It is always around 38ºC in July/August. This time is […]

It is spring evening in Amsterdam. I had a nice walk with John in the chilly wind this afternoon in the Vondelpark. The park is only a few minutes across the bridge from our house. It was great to breath some fresh air and was amazing to see many people […]

Hi all, while Amsterdam is drizzling whole day, I was making my silkscreen printing in the studio. From making the screen till start to make it ready for paper placemats, it is a lot of preparation. I am not sure whether Dutch like to have paper placemats for kids party, […]

It is Friday again. I am so looking forward to some nice weekend activities. In the past few weeks, I was busy doing a lot of creative projects. By learning new things such book binding, illustrator and photoshop, stamp making and watercolor painting, silkscreen printing, letterpress printing etc etc, it […]

One month for now is Easter holiday. For some countries like South Africa and The Netherlands, that is a big holiday to celebrate. I know there are more countries out there which celebrate this special holiday, I know it because John’s family are both from South Africa and the Netherlands. […]

Since I was a little girl, I love to have all the little notebooks. I used to write lyrics for newly learned songs. And when I reached to age 18, I started to make journals and sketches on the notebooks. It is a place where I have my secret and […]

Tuesday is here, the week goes very quickly. In the past week I was reading some Japanese pattern books, one of the striking elements from the book is the bird pattern. As Japanese art used a lot of nature elements, birds, trees, cloud, leafs etc etc. I was thinking of […]

Time flies when you are doing the things you love, it is almost 20:30pm, I haven’t finished my painting for today, but I did something yesterday. I will show you just now. I have been living in the Netherlands for almost 12 years, yes till 11 Feb, 2012, I am […]

image by ping he, silkscreen print on textile in Amsterdam Life sometimes hits you in a very unexpected way, sometime like a storm, sweep away all in a sudden, when you are not prepared for it. My life was suffered in such a storm since last June. Last November I […]

[topcollage] Floral painting by Ping It has been busy past two weeks, as the holiday season approaches here, we had many celebrations. Because Dutch has its own Sante Clause holiday besides Christmas, we often met the family and friends, I like the most about the season is that the family […]

Water color painting – I started to do some painting these days, it has been a long time that I did not write blog everyday. There are something tragic happened in the family, I did not prepare enough for it, and I feel lost myself for a long while. For […]

image by ping he My friend Miriam bought me a French living magazine called “le journal de la Maison” yesterday. And the first thing she saw me this morning on the way to our perfume class was greeting me with this lovely magazine. So so sweet of her. […]